RAMALLAH, September 4, 2011 (WAFA) – President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that the Palestinian decision to go to the United Nations does not aim to isolate or de-legitimize Israel, but to de-legitimatize the occupation, which must end.

Abbas was briefing a meeting of Fatah Revolutionary Council to discuss the Palestinian bid to ask the UN for full membership.

He said that the Palestinians are the only people who are still under occupation.

He said that going to the UN is to obtain Palestine’s full membership in the international body, then to go back to the negotiations on clear and specific basis.

“We are ready to accept any proposal that would bring Palestinians and Israelis back to the negotiations based on stopping all settlement activities, the two-state solution within the 1967 borders and an agreed upon time frame,” Abbas stressed.

He added that “no matter what results we obtain from the UN, we will go back to the negotiations to reach a final solution.”

He said that the Palestinians' demand at the UN includes changing the status of the Palestinian Territory from “disputed territory” to “country under occupation.'

He further explained that going to the UN does not mean an end to the PLO, as some have claimed. The PLO, he said, will always be the protector of the Palestinian people’s right until the independent state is established and the occupation ends once and for all.

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